It was 1974 and I (along with millions of others) fell in love with, not only spiders, but snakes too.

Huh??

I was a young pup (yes, there was a day I was a young pup) working at a radio station in Winner, S.D. when a single came in called ‘Spiders and Snakes’. Well, this is gonna be weird, I thought to myself. And it was. Weirdly good!

Jim Stafford went on to sell, oh, a couple million or so copies of that record and I was hooked.

I’ve always loved the creativity of artists, the ones who can string words together, twist them a little here and there, make them rhyme and most of all, make them make sense! Two of the best, in my opinion, were the legendary Roger Miller and Mr. Jim Stafford. Both had great, great songs and many with great titles, Jim with songs like ‘My Girl Bill’, ‘Your Bulldog Drinks Champagne’, ‘Wildwood Weed’ and ‘Cow Patti’. I won’t even try to explain them, but suffice to say I loved them all.

Jim hosted his own television show in the mid 1970′s and was one of the artists who appeared regularly on The Tonight Show, as well as many other shows. And he never failed to entertain! If Jim Stafford walked out from behind the curtain, you knew something good was going to happen.

A Winter Haven, Florida native, Jim Stafford is a legend in Branson, Missouri, having performed at his own theater for over 25 years. Folks, do yourself a favor, if you’re heading to the Ozarks, check out the great Jim Stafford.

Yep, at 71 years young Jim is still making audiences laugh and cry, stand and applaud.

Now, on a more personal note, while I loved (and still love) those great songs I mentioned above, it’s Jim’s version of the Jerry Jeff Walker penned classic ‘Mr. Bojangles’ that perhaps I love most of all. Give it a listen below.

Years of patient development have finally paid off for Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, whose “’70s rock drama” project will bow on HBO in 2016.

Previously titled History of Music, the show is now going by the simpler name Vinyl, and boasts a cast that includes Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde and Ray Romano. According to the official synopsis, the storyline is as follows: “Set in 1970s New York, the series will explore the drug- and sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out, all through the eyes of a record executive trying to resurrect his label and find the next new sound.”

Originally announced in 2011, the series was conceived by Jagger as a film, but opted to make the switch to an hour-long HBO drama after entering a co-production pact with Scorsese. Interestingly, as the HBO deal was being announced, Showtime had plans for a similarly structured series — which was titled Vinyl.

As previously reported, the new show is the latest project Jagger and Scorsese have worked on together; Rolling Stones fans will recall that the famed director helmed the band’s 2008 documentary, Shine a Light. It remains to be seen how active a hand either production partner will take in Vinyl, but Scorsese has already directed the pilot episode.

HBO has yet to announce a premiere date, but production is well under way, with Boardwalk Empire vet Terence Winter writing the screenplay for the pilot and acting as showrunner. The show’s writing stable also includes George Mastras, who previously worked on all five seasons of Breaking Bad.

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What should’ve been a nice, relaxing summer day at the beach became the scene of an ugly confrontation between a white woman and two African-Americans.

The white woman became enraged when two kids who are African-American splashed water on her at a Chicago beach. The kids’ mother, Raquel Bolton, was at the beach with her sister and recorded the woman in the middle of her outburst as she went off on them, using the N-word.

Bolton put the video on her Facebook page (beware of the NSFW language). It begins with the woman uttering the N-word and saying:

Oh, of course you haven’t graduated and you don’t know the Constitution of the United States and what it says. It’s called free speech in America. Right to free speech! Look it up!”

The woman at the center of this controversy has been identified by the Frisky as Angelle Marie “Puff” Massion, a fact Bolton made sure to point out on her Facebook page:

YouTuber Matthias Wandel is behind this Slinky elevator. He was inspired by the idea of a “Slinky stairway that never ends,” which, to every 10-year-old sounds like the greatest thing this side of a candy store that has an endless supply of Nerds.

Wandel put in some hard work designing his contraption and he tinkers a lot trying to find just the right speed to make the elevator work smoothly before he finally hits paydirt.

This is altogether awesome, right? Maybe we’re going a little bit out on a ledge here, but we think Wandel is a 21st century Thomas Edison, inventing essential items to make our lives better.

Looking to get the most boss (do people still say “boss?”) car stereo? Why not follow this guy’s lead?

This video is from 2011 and is worth taking a second (or third) look in 2015.

The man who came up with this idea filled a Ziploc container with raw eggs and then placed them inside four 18-inch, 30,000-watt speakers in the back of a 2001 Chevy Tahoe.

What happens next is a surprising marriage of excessive volume, automotive technology and culinary know-how. The containers start bouncing around like a nerd being pushed in the hallway by the football team.

The result? The eggs actually begin to scramble. It’s certainly not the ideal way to cook, but isn’t it cool to just know that you can. For all the talk you hear in the summer about it being hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk or bake cookies in a car, this may be the trick to try.

For all the controversy and hubbub surrounding Fifty Shades of Grey, did you know that movies sex scenes only add up to 14 minutes of the film’s two hour and five minute runtime? That’s just 11% of what everyone went to see in the first place. This is just one of the facts packed into the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies, which takes the pain train to Fifty Shades of Grey!

The Fifty Shades of Grey movie was so highly anticipated that it’s first trailer had over 90 million views in 2014 making it the biggest movie trailer of the year. That notoriety was shortlived, however, as the Avengers: Age of Ultron and Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer would eventually beat that record.

“You Think You Know Movies?” is a ScreenCrush original series that dives deep into the cinematic worlds of your favorite movies and freeze frames a few tidbits you might not have known. We’ve already tackled Star Wars, The Avengers and Spider-Man, but now, it’s time to get kinky with this Fifty Shades of Grey video!

Watch more installments of ‘You Think You Know Movies?’ below and let us know what movies we should cover next.

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In a career of more than 50 years, Paul McCartney has released hundreds of songs. And it turns out there are plenty more that he wrote but can’t recall. In a new interview, he talks about how technology has made it easier to remember musical ideas these days.

“Things have changed quite a bit,” McCartney told the Evening Standard (via NME). “You’ve got recording devices now which change the songwriting process. For instance, John [Lennon] and I didn’t have them when we first started writing, we would write a song and just have to remember it.”

He’s recalling the days when he and Lennon would sit “like mirrors” with their guitars in McCartney’s house, which had a piano, and write songs in the early days of their partnership in the Beatles. But as creative as they were, he said “there was always the risk that we’d just forget it. If the next morning you couldn’t remember it, it was gone. In actual fact, you had to write songs that were memorable, because you had to remember them or they were lost! There must have been dozens lost this way. … So you would have to form the thing, have it all finished, remember it all, go in pretty quickly and record it.”

Instead of complaining about how young whippersnappers have it easy, McCartney has embraced modernity and found that it has aided his creative process. “Now, because you can get things down on a device, I’ve got millions of things I want to record and do,” he said.

God bless those who have the love and courage to take on the responsibility of having a blind dog; life can be tough. You need to keep constant surveillance on what your dog is doing to make sure they don’t run away or get injured. It’s a daily struggle that, while rewarding, can also make life very stressful.

That’s why these pet owners custom-built a contraption for their dog. After losing his sight from cataracts, Buddy had a hard time making his way around the house. So, his parents took it upon themselves to make a ring that helps him feel his way around his home. Thanks to their invention, Buddy is now living a happier life.

The viral video is titled “This we call “Supafly Breakdancing” and it’s not hard to figure out why.

Two young men show off their sweet dance moves before giving way to the real star — a fly on the floor that looks like it’s breakdancing (it’s the best kind of breakdancing we’ve seen since this brain-busting exercise).

Of course, in reality, it looks like the fly is struggling, but that doesn’t appear to have stopped anyone from enjoying this clip. Breakdancing flies may just be the newest internet trend. Keep an eye out for it.

Noting that the new versions of the albums leave fans with “double the amount of [Led Zeppelin] studio information and studio material that there was in the first place,” Page tells ABC News Radio that he’s satisfied he’s given the band its due with the remastered records and their attendant bonus material.

“There’s such in affection for Led Zeppelin music within the audience, it could only be the right thing to do to put out a real authoritative package,” noted Page. “And here we are at the end of it.”

Fans might be tempted to take that with a grain of salt, given that most major rock artists have seen multiple rounds of reissues over the past 25 years, but Page feels the current versions of the albums have been future-proofed as much as possible. “The last time that Led Zeppelin music was remastered it was for the advent of CDs over 20 years ago,” he pointed out. “I wanted to really approach every way that you could listen to it outside of MP3 [and] let it be available for people who want to hear it … with all the distance in it and the depth and the 3D picture of the mixing, etc, etc.”

Now that the reissues have been closed out, Page will presumably return his attention to his solo career, which he plans to revive with new tour dates and an album he’s hinted will be “quite different” from anything people expect.

I’m assuming you’ve heard about the recent string of shark attacks along the coast of North Carolina. Even with that being the case, that isn’t keeping tourists away from the beaches. Some of the beach goers, however, have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Case in point: here’s video of an older couple nonchalantly walking into the ocean in North Carolina with their very own set of homemade shark cages. They didn’t make it very far though. Shortly after entering the water, they were chased down by a lifeguard. It should be pointed out though – they did come out of the water withouta shark bite.

Two weeks after releasing “Rattle That Lock,” the lead single from his upcoming album of the same name, David Gilmour has unveiled the video for the song. You can watch the clip above.

The striking animated black-and-white video was created by Alasdair & Jock from Trunk Animation, under the supervision of Hipgnosis, whose artwork for Pink Floyd‘s classic albums helped define Gilmour’s old band. They took their cue from Gustave Dore’s drawings for John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the 17th century epic poem about the fall of man that Polly Samson, Gilmour’s wife and collaborator, has also used for inspiration. The plot centers on Satan falling from heaven down to Earth. Along the way, Satan changes shapes from an angel to a cormorant and finally to a serpent.

“I love animation when it does something that can’t be achieved any other way,” Gilmour says in a press release announcing the video. “The film Alasdair & Jock have made for ‘Rattle That Lock’ highlights a darkness in the song that couldn’t have been shown any other way.”

Samson was similarly impressed. “I think the animators have done a fine job, paying homage to Gustave Dore, bringing his illustrations for Paradise Lost alive, making a powerful visual for the song,” she says.

Rattle That Lock, which will be released on Sept. 18, is Gilmour’s first solo album since 2006′s On an Island. He recorded the bulk of it in Brighton, England, and in the studio on his houseboat, with Roxy Music‘s Phil Manzanera and former Squeeze keyboardist Jools Holland helping out.

When it comes to business decisions, there’s really no accounting for spite. Bad blood can lead people to do crazy things, and so, on July 31, 1970, on their way out the door, the Rolling Stones decided to stick it to the label that had stuck it to them for the past six years.

At the end of 1969, after years of recording and releasing new material at a pittance of a royalty rate, the Stones were finally able to extricate themselves from the control of their longtime record label Decca, as well as their brutish manager Allen Klein, who had negotiated their last contract. There was a catch however. While the live record Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! satisfied the band’s final contractual album obligation to Decca, they still owed the label one Jagger-Richards penned single.

To get back at Decca, and to fulfill the final stipulation of their contract, the band convened in a recording studio and came out with a track they titled “C—sucker Blues.” Based around a song titled “The Lonesome Guitar Strangler” by New Orleans piano man Dr. John from his 1969 album Babylon, the band’s composition was written as crudely as they could possibly make it in the hopes of forcing Decca to keep it in the vaults.

The band debuted the track for Sir Edward Lewis, the head of Decca Records, at their final meeting on the way out the door. Beyond it’s lewd title, the lyrics themselves alluding to a number of unsavory sex acts, basically killed any chance of it seeing the light of day at which point and both parties washed their hands of one another and went their separate ways.

On April 1, 1971, the Rolling Stones signed a monstrous five-album deal with Ahmet Ertegun and Atlantic Records that stipulated for a then unheard of $1,000,000 guaranteed advance and a 10 percent royalty for each record released for the duration of the contract. They were also given their own imprint, Rolling Stones Records as a sort of kicker and released one of their seminal albums Sticky Fingers shortly thereafter. As for the song itself, it eventually saw an official release in 1983 as part of the compilation album The Rest of the Best in Germany but was very quickly withdrawn from the shelves.

The song’s title was later used for Robert Frank’s 1972 documentary chronicling the Rolling Stones’ tour in support of Exile on Main Street. Its portrayal of over-the-top rock n’ roll hedonism caused the Stones to go to court to stop its release. They got a ruling saying that it can only be shown up to five times a year, and only with Frank in attendance.

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It was media day in Rio de Janeiro as Ronda Rousey and Bethe Correia went face to face prior to their showdown in the main event of UFC 190 Saturday night on Pay-Per-View.

The two will square off for Rousey’s bantamweight title and if their staredown was any indication of what to expect this weekend, you will want to have plenty of popcorn and beer. These two ladies do not like each other at all, and Correia wants nothing more than to end Rousey’s UFC dominance in her home country. That will not be easy, since the female phenom is coming off of a 14-second destruction of Cat Zingano in February.

Correia is undefeated at 9-0 and is 3-0 in UFC. She is also fighting in her home country, but none of that may matter when Rousey enters the octagon.

But there also have been rumors, some as recently as yesterday, that Sony is quietly working on a second all-star, all-male Ghostbusters, possibly with big-time action heroes Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt. Could there be a brewing battle-of-the-sexes over the future of the Ghostbusters universe?

Ivan Reitman, the man who directed the first two Ghostbusters movies, and the producer of the new Feig-busters, says no. In a just-released statement, he’s quite definitive about it, saying:

“There has been a lot of excitement recently about what is happening with the Ghostbusters franchise. As the producer of the new Ghostbusters film, I feel the need to clarify. There is only one new Ghostbusters movie and that is the Paul Feig directed version coming next July, presently filming and going fantastically. The rest is just noise.”

Apparently any other possible Ghostbusters movies, such as an all-bro team, were ideas that were thrown around before the Feig film came together and went into serious production. Neither Chan-chan Tay-tay or Star-Lord are at presented employed by Sony for the purposes of busting of ghosts.

So there you have it: There is just one Ghostbusters at present, and it is Paul Feig’s. Man, bustin’ rumors makes me feel good.

It is probably because it is lunch time and breakfast was at 4:30 this morning, but that thing looks delicious! If you’re a barbecue fanatic, you probably know who Steve Raichlen is, after all he is the guy credited with reinventing barbecue! He is a chef, a TV show host, an author who has written numerous best-selling cookbooks and he loves everything about grilling food.

Leave it to a guy who can grill everything from cheese, (no, not grilled cheese sandwiches, although he has done that too) to eggs, (mhm–eggs!) to chicken parmesan on the ‘ole Weber or gas grill, to come across “The Onion Bomb”. No, he didn’t invent it, in fact if you’re the person who did, he wants you to contact him at his website Barbecue Bible on the Barbecue Board, because he thinks you’re a genius!

Rumor has it “The Onion Bomb” has it’s origins in the camping community which wouldn’t surprise me, especially because there seems to be a huge resurgence in “foil-pack” grilled dinners this summer.

What is an “Onion Bomb”? You take the outer layers of an onion, stuff them with a meatloaf type mixture, wrap it in bacon and grill over indirect heat. These also work as foil-pack meal put directly into the embers (old style, don’t you know?)

In any case they look yummy to me and Mr. Raichlen has actually come up with some interesting variations too, so grab some onions at the Farmer’s Markets this weekend, (like I did yesterday), give them a try and then report back to me!